{"product_id":"saxon-identities-ad-150-900-robert-flierman-9781350098923","title":"Saxon Identities, AD 150-900","description":"This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended nature of Saxon identity, but also the crucial role played by texts as instruments and resources of identity-formation. This book traces this process of identity-formation over the course of eight centuries, from its earliest beginnings in Roman ethnography to its reinvention in the monasteries and bishoprics of ninth-century Saxony.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though the Saxons were mentioned as early as AD 150, they left no written evidence of their own before \u003ci\u003ec.\u003c\/i\u003e 840. Thus, for the first seven centuries, we can only look at the Saxons through the eyes of their Roman enemies, Merovingian neighbours and Carolingian conquerors. Such external perspectives do not yield objective descriptions of a people, but rather reflect an ongoing discourse on Saxon identity, in which outside authors described who they imagined, wanted or feared the Saxons to be: dangerous pirates, noble savages, bestial pagans or faithful subjects. Significantly, these outside views deeply influenced how ninth-century Saxons eventually came to think about themselves, using Roman and Frankish texts to reinvent the Saxons as a noble and Christian people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Flierman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350098922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350098923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d","brand":"Robert Flierman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925003993343,"sku":"9781350098923","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3a733da3-0636-477f-883e-11d0b3e5ebef.jpg?v=1681074752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/saxon-identities-ad-150-900-robert-flierman-9781350098923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}